Bodies of 2 women found behind Bolivar store

Updated 6:40 pm, Friday, March 7, 2014

Fisherman's Cove Food Mart employee Javier Jimenez throws trash into the dumpster next to where two bodies were found Friday.

Fisherman's Cove Food Mart employee Javier Jimenez throws trash into the dumpster next to where two bodies were found Friday.

Photo: Thomas B. Shea

Bodies of 2 women found behind Bolivar store

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PORT BOLIVAR - A beer delivery driver discovered the bodies of two women early Friday behind a store near the Bolivar Ferry.

Homicide investigators believe the women were killed elsewhere and their bodies left next to a dumpster, said Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo, spokesman for the Galveston County Sheriff's Office. It was unclear how they died, he said.

The driver, who asked that his name not be published, said he arrived shortly before 7 a.m. with a special order of two cases of beer. The clerk had not arrived to open the store so he drove his car to the back of the building and parked near the dumpster.

"As I was approaching the dumpster, I saw bodies laid out," he said. "I couldn't tell if they were men or women."

He said one body was lying face down and the other on its side. Both were wearing pants.

The clerk arrived and the driver asked her to come to the dumpster.

"I knew they were bodies and I knew they were dead," he said. "I got the woman out of the store to make sure we were both seeing the same thing."

On Friday afternoon, smears of blood could still be seen next to the dumpster marking the spot where they were removed.

Store manager Kal­pesh Gandhi was called in because the clerk was so shaken she had to go home.

Authorities released a statement asking for help in locating the department's vehicle, a silver, 2006 Kia Sorento SUV with gray trim. The vehicle, which had been stolen, should have unknown paper tags, the statement said.

It asked that anyone who saw the vehicle call law enforcement. Anyone with information about the victims was asked to call the sheriff's office at 866-248-8477.